Sentence examples for subsisted about from inspiring English sources

White describes this as a disastrous fall: "Thus fell the considerable and well-endowed priory of Selborne after it had subsisted about two hundred and fifty-four years; about seventy-four yeafterfthe the suppression of priories alien by Henry V., and about fifty years before the general dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII".

After his brief detour into Los Feliz, he returned to the seven square miles of Griffith Park, where he is likely to continue subsisting on about three deer a month, along with the chance coyote or raccoon.

More than 48,000 of them, some bused in free because this emerging country in which millions subsist on about $2 a day could not otherwise hope to fill the expensive stadiums being built for the 2010 World Cup.

What about the man who subsisted on pizza for 30 days in 2009 and achieved similar results?

Throughout the 19th century the common people and particularly children in rural areas of France, the Netherlands, and Germany had subsisted on Imagerie d'Épinal, single cheap broadsheets hawked about the countryside and in small towns.

The great idea behind this great idea is the movie Super Size Me about an American film-maker, Morgan Spurlock, who subsisted on a McDonald's diet for a month, and filmed his Odyssey from each McFlurry to Quarter pounder.

But even with the lure of the approving star, she subsisted mainly on grilled-cheese sandwiches between the ages of about 7 and 11.

It had subsisted quietly and modestly until two weeks previously, when someone wrote a paragraph about the restaurant in a local paper, raving about a south Vietnamese speciality called Bò luôc Xuan dào.

Gauchos subsisted largely on meat.

They subsisted on state benefits.

"The odd thing about the pre-1957 artistic works that the government is now going to protect by copyright, is that no copyright ever subsisted in these works under British law," he says.